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Reposted by Wendy D. Manning, Karen Benjamin Guzzo

nchatstudy.bsky.social
Happy Sunday! Check out this recent NCHAT publication from @chrisajulian.bsky.social, Hannah Tessler, @wendymanning.bsky.social, Alexandra VanBergen, and @clairekampdush.bsky.social.
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Half of the Picture: A Research Note on Measuring the Sexual Identity Composition of Couples | Demography | Duke University Press
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Reposted by Wendy D. Manning

Reposted by Wendy D. Manning

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by Wendy D. Manning

wendymanning.bsky.social
Divorce rate decline continues… we have been documenting these trends alongside marriage. @ncfmr-bgsu.bsky.social www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resour...
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by Wendy D. Manning — Reposted by Patrick Präg

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Check out our new paper using @nchatstudy.bsky.social dyadic data to measure sexual minority couples. The levels are twice as high when you consider the sexual identity of BOTH members of the couple. @chrisajulian.bsky.social

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Half of the Picture: A Research Note on Measuring the Sexual Identity Composition of Couples | Demography | Duke University Press
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Three out of five recent newlyweds cohabited prior to marriage. www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resour... @ncfmr-bgsu.bsky.social
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Reposted by Wendy D. Manning

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Feb 13
Demography is 77% to the Subscribe to Open funding goal. Deadline to reach 100% is March 31, 2025 to flip the 2025 volume to open in perpetuity. Join subscribers for the 2025 volume - https://buff.ly/4aRk2G1.

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Demography is 77% to the Subscribe to Open funding goal. Deadline to reach 100% is March 31, 2025 to flip the 2025 volume to open in perpetuity. Join subscribers for the 2025 volume - https://www.dukeupress.edu/open-access/demography-community-funders.
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North Dakota House passes resolution urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its same-sex marriage ruling #NOH8
North Dakota House passes resolution urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its same-sex marriage ruling #NOH8
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The Trump administration has suggested bringing the U.S. Postal Service under White House control, and having mail carriers conduct the census. Here's what to know about the controversial ideas.
Postal workers conducting the census is part of a Trump pitch for taking over USPS
The Trump administration has suggested bringing the U.S. Postal Service under White House control, and having mail carriers conduct the census. Here's what to know about the controversial ideas.
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Reposted by Wendy D. Manning, Tamara Dubowitz

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🧪 UPDATE: NSF just opened itself even further to lawsuit.

Yesterday, it doubled down on the false claim that its 1,000+ grant terminations are "not subject to appeal."

See question 16 here, published Friday afternoon: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

A brief thread... 🧵
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Apr 20
🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵

On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE).

The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases:

"not subject to appeal"
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Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · Apr 18
Here's a copy of an NSF grant termination notice that went out today. "NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant...on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities." Not subject to appeal. #HigherEd #AcademicSky
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Reposted by Wendy D. Manning

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About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported
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About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported
About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.
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Reposted by Wendy D. Manning, Yue Qian

karenguzzo.bsky.social
Another new paper on fertility intentions! Using @nchatstudy.bsky.social data, we consider whether cohabiting & married people's short-term fertility intentions are subjective perceptions of well-being.

The answer? Yes! 1/

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As fertility rates in the U.S. and elsewhere continue to fall, standard demographic theories that focus on objective micro- and macroeconomic conditions seem unable to explain these trends. New approaches, such as the Narrative of the Future framework and the “uncertainty” paradigm, have emphasized the potential for subjective perceptions to be important for fertility decision-making, net of objective characteristics. We use a unique new source of data—the National Couples’ Health and Time Study, a nationally representative sample of cohabiting and married adults interviewed between September 2020 and April 2021—to examine short-term fertility intentions and better understand if and how including a general subjective evaluation (overall life satisfaction) and domain-specific subjective evaluations (economic stress and relationship satisfaction) are related to fertility intentions. We find that most respondents did not intend to have a child in the next year, though about one in seven respondents were unsure about if/when to have a(nother) child. Net of objective characteristics, overall life satisfaction was positively associated with short-term intentions to have a child, and greater economic stress was linked to uncertainty about short-term intentions. We did not observe a link in multivariable models between relationship satisfaction and intentions. Further, models stratified by parenthood indicated that both objective characteristics and subjective perceptions were more strongly linked to first-birth intentions than higher-parity intentions. Our results add to the growing body of work suggesting that (a) subjective perceptions have modest but significant links to fertility decision-making and (b) uncertainty in decision-making is important to consider.
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by Wendy D. Manning

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4% of marriages each year are now to same-sex marriage! 10 years of love wins! www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resour...
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Support for marriage equality persists! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/o...
Opinion | Roll Back Legal Same-Sex Marriage? Republicans Are Getting It Wrong.
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by Wendy D. Manning

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Want to know more about same-sex couples? Check out our work. www.bgsu.edu/content/dam/...
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